Drone Flight Calculations

Drone Flight

• The drone has a horizontal displacement of 240 feet
• The drone has a vertical displacement of 25 feet
• The angle of descent is the angle between the drone's path and the horizontal
• The distance of the drone's path is the hypotenuse of a right triangle, where the horizontal distance is one leg and the vertical distance is the other leg.
• The angle of descent can be found using the arctangent function
• The distance of the drone's path can be found using the Pythagorean theorem
• The angle of descent to the nearest degree is 6 degrees
• The distance of the drone's path to the nearest tenth of a foot is 241.9 feet